Broward Sheriff's Office releases 911 call made to help Rick Ross

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Rick Ross' ascension to hip-hop's upper echelon has been one of the most fascinating storylines in recent memory. He's as obsessed with hard-sounding consonants and deft wordplay as he is with whipping hard white (read: cocaine), and that makes ignoring his biographical lies a lot easier.

Rick Ross' ascension to hip-hop's upper echelon has been one of the most fascinating storylines in recent memory. He's as obsessed with hard-sounding consonants and deft wordplay as he is with whipping hard white (read: cocaine), and that makes ignoring his biographical lies a lot easier. (Getty)

Following the aborted Fort Lauderdale flight, the Miami rapper tried to calm fears that he wouldn't make the Memphis, Tenn., show through a flurry of tweets. He then boarded a private flight to try to make his Memphis, Tenn., concert and that flight was also grounded -- this time in Birmingham, Ala.

A concert scheduled for Oct. 23 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre was moved into next year.